Joran van der Sloot wasn’t known to be violent? Look deeper. Even if you don’t find it, he’s an addict; therefore, anything is possible.
“[Joran] van der Sloot’s past (sic) wasn’t known to be violent.”
So wrote Frank Bajak in an Associated Press piece on the 22-year-old who was arrested for the murder of Stephany Flores, whose body was found in a Peruvian hotel room with her neck broken, one eye dangling from its socket and her bloodied face so battered her brother didn’t recognize her in the morgue. The gruesome murder was committed five years to the day after Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba, where van der Sloot was the main suspect and whose father, who died in January, was a judge. In supporting his headline, Bajak cited the fact that “the only case in the past five years where he’s known to have ...